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eat

Meaning of “eat”

To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away.

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655 occurrences583 verses49 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 2:16

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Hosea 2:12
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Hosea 2:12 · retained source text

And I will destroy her vines and her figge trees, whereof she hath said; These are my rewards that my louers haue giuen me: and I will make them a forrest, and the beasts of the field shall eate them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. make desolate.

Hosea 4:8
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Hosea 4:8 · retained source text

They eate vp the sinne of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquitie.

1611 marginal noteHeb. lift up their soule to their iniquitie.

Hosea 4:10
For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.
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1611 witness · Hosea 4:10 · retained source text

For they shall eate, and not haue enough: they shall commit whordome, and shall not increase, because they haue left off to take heed to the LORD.

Hosea 8:13
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Hosea 8:13 · retained source text

They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eate it; but the LORD accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes: they shal returne to Egypt.

1611 marginal noteOr, in the sacrifices of mine offerings, they &c.

Hosea 9:3
They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
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1611 witness · Hosea 9:3 · retained source text

They shal not dwel in y e LORDs land: but Ephraim shall returne to Egypt, and they shall eat vncleane things in Assyria.

Hosea 9:4
They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Hosea 9:4 · retained source text

They shall not offer wine offrings to the LORD: neither shall they be pleasing vnto him: their sacrifices shalbe vnto them as the bread of mourners: all that eate thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soule shall not come into the house of the LORD.

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